Lucidella is a genus of land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vianinae of the family Helicinidae.
Distribution
Distribution of the genus include Central America and Caribbean: Dominica - one undescribed species Jamaica - 12 species Cuba - 4 species: Lucidella granulum, Lucidella granum, Lucidella rugosa, Lucidella tantilla. Dominican Republic - 1 specie:Lucidella beatensis Haiti - At least three undetermined species. From Mexico to Costa Rica - Lucidella lirata Honduras South Florida French Guiana
Species
Thompson (2008) recognized four subgenera: Lucidella Swainson, 1840, Poeniella H. B. Baker, 1923, Lidsleya Chitty, 1857, Poenia H. & A. Adams, 1856.
But Rosenberg & Muratov (2006) recognized also subgenus Perenna on Jamaica.
Species within the genus Lucidella include:
subgenus Lucidella Swainson, 1840
Lucidella aureola (Férussac, 1822) - type species - photo
Lucidella aureola montegoensis Brown, 1913
Lucidella granulosa C. B. Adams, 1850
Lucidella granulosa undulata Pfeiffer, 1862
Lucidella inaequalis (Pfeiffer, 1859) Lucidella kobelti Wagner, 1910
subgenus Perenna
Lucidella foxi Pilsbry, 1899
Lucidella lineata (C. B. Adams, 1845) Lucidella nana Pfeiffer, 1857 Lucidella persculpta Pilsbry & Brown, 1912 Lucidella yallahsensis Pilsbry & Brown, 1912
subgenus Poenia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856
Lucidella adamsiana (Pfeiffer, 1849) Lucidella adamsiana sublaevis H. B. Baker, 1934 Lucidella coronula (Pfeiffer, 1862) Lucidella depressa Gray, 1825 Lucidella depressa valida (C. B. Adams, 1851) Lucidella pilsbryi Clapp, 1914 - from Honduras Lucidella pilsbryi indecora Pilsbry, 1930 Lucidella midyetti Richards, 1938 - from Honduras
subgenus ? Lucidella granulum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1864) Lucidella granum (Pfeiffer, 1856) Lucidella lirata (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) - from Mexico to Costa Rica Lucidella rugosa (Pfeiffer, 1839) Lucidella tantilla (Pilsbry, 1902) - ochre drop Lucidella sp. from Dominica
References
Further reading
Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Monograph of the genus Lucidella in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 481–27. Boss K. J. & Jacobson M. K. (1974). "Catalogue of the taxa of Lucidella (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae)". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4: 4929–38. Pilsbry H. A. (1928). "Review of the species of Lucidella belonging to the subgenus Poeniella (Helicinidae) of Haiti and Santo Domingo". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80: 479–482, plate 27.